BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB - ECPv6.15.1.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20240702T191124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T163543Z
UID:10000713-1727971200-1727978400@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 3\, from 4-6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Key Passages\, our 2024-25 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, and conversation. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2024/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/OpenHouse_2024_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20240924T160907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240925T234753Z
UID:10000719-1728405000-1728412200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Salt of the Earth: A Conversation between a Palestinian and an Israeli Peace Activist
DESCRIPTION:Join Osama lliwat and Rotem Levin\, Palestinian and Israeli peace activists\, as they share their personal stories of transformation\, lessons of joint peaceful resistance\, and the vastly different realities they face in the same land. The devastating escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine has left many feeling powerless\, angry\, and hopeless. Rotem and Osama believe in the possibility of a different reality grounded in a shared future of security\, equality\, and justice for all people.  \nOsama lliwat was born in Jerusalem\, where his family is originally from\, and was displaced like so many Palestinians around the world after the war of 1967. He grew up in Jericho. He has been in the peace world for more than 15 years and is the co-founder of Visit Palestine. He has dedicated his life to nonviolent resistance\, working with different organizations\, such as the Sulha Peace Project and Interfaith Encounter Association\, appearing in several documentaries\, including Objector and The Other\, and regularly speaking on peacebuilding at organizations and universities around the world. \nRotem Levin was born and raised in Ein Vered. After his military service\, he participated in a transformational intensive dialogue program in Germany\, where he got to know Palestinians on a personal and intimate level. This instigated a change in perspective on the story he was born and raised with. After this experience\, he started organizing similar programs in Aqaba\, Jordan\, where he offered the experience to other post-military Israelis and to Palestinian and Israeli medical workers. He is a committed activist and doctor by profession. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/salt-of-the-earth/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SaltOfTheEarth_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20240909T234157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T171308Z
UID:10000716-1728576000-1728583200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Key Passages Inaugural Talk: AI: A New Passage to Human Creativity?
DESCRIPTION:March 14\, 2023 marked the beginning of a new era: Chat GPT-4 was released\, fundamentally changing the way humans relate to language. In this talk\, Professor Park will explore the implications of this pivotal moment. She will consider AI’s impact on the production of works of fiction and on creativity more broadly. Questions to be explored include: Does AI-informed writing have the potential to supplant traditional novel writing? In what ways can AI innovate creativity? How will the proliferation of generative AI impact our understanding of the role of human agency in the creative process? Professor Park will draw from her experience as head judge of a spring 2024 AI-inclusive short story competition sponsored by UCSB’s Mellichamp Initiative in Mind and Machine Intelligence. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Sowon Park is Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in Cognitive Literary Criticism and is Director of the Center for Literature and Mind. Her current research projects include a five-year investigation on “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy” (2021- 2026) and the ongoing neuro-literary research forum on “Unconscious Memory” (https://unconsciousmemory.english.ucsb.edu/). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series \nImage: Adobe Firefly AI generator
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-talk-ai/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Park_Event.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20240903T174746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T191817Z
UID:10000715-1729008000-1729013400@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Global Studies) and Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) about Hamed-Troyansky’s new book\, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State. Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime\, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries\, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration\, and refugees and immigrants\, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nVladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. His articles appeared in Past & Present\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Slavic Review\, and Kritika. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-vladimir-hamed-troyansky/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Hamed-Troyansky_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241016T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20240911T201132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240925T230226Z
UID:10000717-1729094400-1729101600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers | Disturbing the Bones
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between Jennifer Holt (Film and Media Studies) and co-authors Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers about their novel\, Disturbing the Bones. \nIn Disturbing the Bones\, a plot to disrupt a global peace summit in Chicago collides with a civil rights case breakthrough at a mysterious archaeological site. Chicago detective Randall Jenkins has not been back home to the historic Civil Rights hotspot of Cairo\, Illinois since the disappearance of his mother\, a well-known journalist\, several decades ago. That all changes the day Dr. Molly Moore\, an ambitious young archaeologist in the national spotlight for her groundbreaking high-tech discoveries\, uncovers a set of strange bones at a huge 12\,000-year-old site at a highway construction project. With retired military general and contractor William Alexander breathing down her neck to cover up the dig\, Molly and Randall soon find themselves in the middle of a wild military conspiracy. The detective and archaeologist’s entwined family mysteries suddenly thrust them into the central position as the only people who can ensure the safety of the ongoing Chicago global peace summit. They must take on the rogue general who views any disarmament agreement as a clear and present danger to the United States. The fate of global peace and the lives of Molly and Randall hang in the balance. A reception will follow. \nAndrew Davis\, raised on the southside of Chicago\, is the acclaimed director and screenwriter of numerous films\, including Holes\, Under Siege\, Code of Silence\, A Perfect Murder\, and The Guardian\, and whose landmark film\, The Fugitive\, chosen in 2020 by Los Angeles Times readers as the ultimate summer film\, was nominated for seven Academy awards including Best Picture. \nJeff Biggers is an American Book Award-winning historian\, journalist\, playwright\, and monologist. He is the author and editor of ten books\, and his work has appeared in American and foreign newspapers\, magazines and numerous anthologies. \nJennifer Holt is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her most recent book\, Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines\, Platforms\, and Data\, was published in September 2024 by MIT Press. \nHosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/disturbing-the-bones/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/DavisBiggers_Event.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T130000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241112T220805Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241113T221513Z
UID:10000739-1729857600-1729861200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: On the Problem of (Re-)Activity: Mobilizing Media with the Sikh Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:A common refrain in political rhetoric is the charge that given instances of agonism are defective because they are in some crucial way reactive. However\, “reactivity” is polysemous and opaque\, despite any seeming transparency implied by the fluency by which it is so often attributed. This talk offers an analytic and ethnographic entrée into the problem of reactivity by considering diasporic investments in mass-mediated address. Sikh media activists scrutinize the reactivity seemingly cultivated by their own community-operated media institutions in their renowned capacity to both assemble and excite. In the wake of brutal state violence\, the mediation of reactivity becomes both a vehicle to address injustice and itself a site to reckon justice that has been withheld. \nRandeep Singh Hothi is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow affiliated with the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. He is a philosophically trained anthropologist concerned with disruptive re-imaginations of the political and economic. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Department of Anthropology
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/on-the-problem-of-re-activity/
LOCATION:2001A HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SouthAsian_RFG_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241023T161627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T173733Z
UID:10000738-1729872000-1729875600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Children’s Literature from the Himalayas: Gesar Stories\, Cultural Authenticity\, and Folkloresque
DESCRIPTION:Gesar is a warrior-like king in the realm of Ling and the protagonist of a voluminous folkloric poem that many Tibetan bards have performed for centuries. With Gesar’s increasing fame in modern times\, the orature has become a quintessential representation of Tibetan culture. By comparing two children’s books that draw on the Gesar tradition\, Tibetan Heroic Epic: Gesar Children’s Literature Collection and Gesar Epic: Hor-Ling Battle\, Zhuoga will discuss the meaning and relevance of cultural authenticity in children’s books. With Gesar’s adaptation in children’s literature as an example\, Zhuoga argues that cultural authenticity is not an imagined reservoir of immutability. Instead\, authenticity is generated from changes made by people who know and own that particular culture. \nQimei Zhuoga\, pronounced as Chemi Droka in the Tibetan language\, completed her Ph.D. at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and her M.A. in English Literature at the University of Leeds (UK). Qimei Zhuoga is a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages and Cultures\, Tibet University. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-childrens-literature-from-the-himalayas-gesar-stories-cultural-authenticity-and-folkloresque/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-22-at-1.08.20-PM.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Nicole Smirnoff":MAILTO:nicolebsmirnoff@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241022T235327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T173742Z
UID:10000737-1730219400-1730223000@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Global Childhood Media: Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join our Research Group!\nOpen to Undergraduates! \nAre you interested in:\n– children’s media\, literature and culture historical childhoods\n– children’s rights\n– education\n– child pyschology\n– sociology of childhood\n– or anything else child-related? \nThe Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group welcomes students from any department with an interest in Childhood Studies to attend our Open House! Join us for more information on programming\, research opportunities\, mentorship\, participation in an annual Undergraduate Research Showcase\, talks and reading groups\, and a likeminded community on campus. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-event-global-childhood-media-open-house/
LOCATION:Private: 6309 Phelps
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-15-at-7.56.48-PM.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Nicole Smirnoff":MAILTO:nicolebsmirnoff@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20240819T214448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250909T165543Z
UID:10000714-1730995200-1731002400@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: When Life Is a Shipwreck: Key Passages in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck\, a violent birth onto unknown shores that separates orphaned twins on a journey to nowhere. The turbulent sea visualizes an environment of passages–into adulthood\, towards sexual identity\, and in search of new attachments and communities of belonging. Twelfth Night is a play about transitions and transitioning\, about passages and passing. What skills\, virtues\, and capacities do the twins need to find their way along the shoreline of life\, and back to each other? In this lecture\, scholar and dramaturg Julia Reinhard Lupton examines key passages in Twelfth Night that illuminate the navigation of life changes and social bodies at the heart of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and sonorous romantic comedy.  Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nJulia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California\, Irvine and Interim Director of the UC Humanities Research Institute. She also co-directs the New Swan Shakespeare Center and serves as Dramaturg for the New Swan Shakespeare Festival. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare\, including Shakespeare Dwelling and Thinking with Shakespeare. Her edited collections address topics such as Shakespeare and virtue\, Shakespeare and hospitality\, and Shakespeare and wisdom literature. A former Guggenheim fellow\, she is a frequent teacher in the community. She is currently writing a book on Shakespeare and virtue. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment     \nImage: Twelfth Night\, New Swan Shakespeare Festival\, University of California\, Irvine\, 2024
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/when-life-is-a-shipwreck/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Lupton_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241108T113000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241022T170321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T205805Z
UID:10000736-1731060000-1731065400@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Ransoming Genoa: Captives\, Consuls\, Missionaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The seminar aims to explore the phenomenon of Mediterranean captivity between the 16th and 19th centuries as analyzed in Andrea Zappia’s monograph\, Mercanti di uomini. Reti e intermediari per la liberazione dei captivi nel Mediterraneo (Città del Silenzio 2018)\, with a particular focus on the singular case of the Republic of Genoa and the redemption of its subjects. The first part of the seminar will provide a historical contextualization\, examining the daily lives of prisoners and the European institutions dedicated to their liberation. The second part will focus on the role of European consuls in the Maghreb\, highlighting their functions in the negotiations for ransoms. Finally\, the important mediation provided by missionaries and apostolic prefects in Tunis\, Tripoli\, and Algiers will be discussed. Through this analysis\, the seminar also intends to reflect on contemporary issues such as human trafficking and exploitation\, which remain relevant in the context of the contemporary Mediterranean. \nDr. Andrea Zappia is a faculty member in the Department of History\, Anthropology\, Religions\, Art History\, Media\, and Performing Arts at the Sapienza Università di Roma. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity\, and the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Program in Transnational Italian Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-ransoming-genoa-captives-consuls-missionaries-in-the-early-modern-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Ransoming-Genoa-Image.jpeg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T143000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241022T170956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T173750Z
UID:10000735-1731416400-1731421800@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Key Readings on Adaptation for Children
DESCRIPTION:This talk by Martina Mattei will explore key concepts from The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture\, focusing on Chapter 27 (“Translation”) and Chapter 29 (“Adaptation”). It will address how children’s literature is translated and adapted across different cultures and media\, examining the balance between staying true to original texts and making them accessible for young readers. The chapter on translation covers the complexities of translating children’s literature\, emphasizing the need to preserve cultural and linguistic integrity while ensuring that young audiences can understand and relate to the material. It highlights the role of translation in shaping children’s understanding of different cultures and ideas. The adaptation chapter examines how children’s stories are reshaped across various media\, such as film and television. It discusses how these adaptations make stories accessible to different age groups while considering cultural and generational influences. The process of adaptation is viewed as a critical way to introduce children to stories in engaging and relevant forms. The talk will emphasize how both translation and adaptation play crucial roles in broadening children’s literary and cultural horizons. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-key-readings-on-adaptation-for-children/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/what-happens-original-little-mermaid-story-hans-christian-andersen.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Martina Mattei":MAILTO:martinamattei@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T134500
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241022T171354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T171932Z
UID:10000731-1731501000-1731505500@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Wen Liu will argue that Asian Americans are not a coherent racial population\, but they are made so through the psychological technologies of “racecraft.” These technologies aim to demonstrate the racial elasticity of the Asian American mind\, including cultural essentialism\, democratic governmentality\, white ascendancy\, and unconscious microaggression. They help construct a flexible racial identity that can demonstrate the wide range of cognitive styles\, cultural practices\, and\, most importantly\, race elasticity for the postwar USA as it strives to become a multicultural democracy. \nWen Liu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology\, Academia Sinica. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/feeling-asian-american-racial-flexibility-between-assimilation-and-oppression/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-16-at-11.27.44 AM.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T163000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241022T173048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T173048Z
UID:10000734-1731574800-1731688200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Conference: Queering Taiwan Studies International Conference
DESCRIPTION:Ku’er\, the Mandarin transliteration of the English word “queer\,” has a distinctly Taiwanese genealogy\, as implied in the homophonic meaning of being “cool.” This conference examines the interrelationships between queer studies and Taiwan studies\, from placing Taiwanese history and culture on the map of queer inquiry to the queering of Taiwan studies. Does queer Taiwan studies mean a focus on queer content\, or is “queering” a method that can be used in studying any content in Taiwan studies? In light of the emergence of queer indigenous studies and queer of color critique in North America\, how might we consider the question of indigeneity\, race\, and ethnicity in queering Taiwan studies? Ultimately\, what can a focus on Taiwan do to exceed the existing limits of queer theory\, and how might the method of queering advance the transgressive potential of Taiwan studies? \nLocations will vary for the conference sessions. Please refer to the schedule below for location information. \n11/14 9:00am – 3:35pm HSSB 4020\n11/14 4:00pm – 5:30pm SSMS 4315\n11/15 9:00am – 4:30pm McCune Conference Room \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCLA’s Asia Pacific Center \nImage: Jess\, Ex. 5 – Mind’s I: Translation #12\, 1965; The National Gallery of Art
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-conference-queering-taiwan-studies-international-conference/
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Jess-Ex.-5-Minds-I-Translation.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241112T223838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241113T221440Z
UID:10000740-1731600000-1731607200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Reason/Rationality Versus Wisdom/Mysticism in Jainism and Indian Thought
DESCRIPTION:On November 14\, as part of the inaugural celebration of the Bhagvan Vimalnath Endowed Chair in Jain Studies and South Asian Religions at UC Santa Barbara\, we will welcome our new colleague\, Anil Mundra\, as the inaugural holder of the Endowed Chair. The celebration will feature a lecture by distinguished Visiting Professor Jayendra Soni at 4:00 pm and will be followed by a reception. \nJayandra Soni retired in May 2012 from the Department of Indology and Tibetology at the University of Marburg in Germany\, where he taught Indian languages (Sanskrit\, Hindi\, and Gujarati) and Indian philosophy from 1991 to 2012. He received his PhD from Banaras Hindu University in India and his second PhD from McMaster University in Canada. He now lives in Innsbruck\, Austria\, where he teaches at the University of Innsbruck. \nAnil Mundra serves as the inaugural holder of the Bhagvan Vimalnath Chair in Jain Studies and South Asian Religions and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He obtained his PhD in the Philosophy of Religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on how South Asian philosophers navigate religious diversity\, especially in Sanskrit texts on the classical Jain theory of non-one-sidedness (anekānta-vāda). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/reason-rationality-versus-wisdom-mysticism-in-jainism-and-indian-thought/
LOCATION:The Club\, Betty Elings Wells Pavilion
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SouthAsian_RFG_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T134500
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241022T173237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T173916Z
UID:10000732-1731933000-1731937500@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Beyond the "New Cold War": Intimating Movements across Taiwan and Asian/Pacific/America
DESCRIPTION:Taiwan has long held a pivotal—if “strategically ambiguous”—position in inter-imperial tensions over global influence and has in recent decades been frequently used to refurbish debates over a “new Cold War.” Situated at the nexus of inter-imperial entanglements\, settler-colonial formations\, and migrant labor networks\, Taiwan’s perpetually unresolved status is\, Wong argues\, pivotal not only for the geopolitics of empire but more importantly for its place in trans-geographical alliance building for those who have long survived\, navigated\, and challenged these imperial binds—e.g.\, Indigenous coalitions\, informal economy workers\, militaristically displaced refugees. In this talk\, Wong discusses the ongoing work of grassroot organizations that have built transpacific networks—through conferences\, community-driven research\, and cultural productions—across Taiwan\, the Philippines\, North America\, and the Pacific. Examining these convergences complicates narrow definitions of both “anti-Asian hate” and “new Cold War” discourses simultaneously\, as such narratives often obscure the many coalitional openings—”the linked\, if uneven intimacies\,” citing Lisa Lowe—that have always already been in formation. \nLily Wong is an Associate Professor of Literature and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies at American University. She also serves as an Associate Director of AU’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center. Her research focuses on the politics of affective labor\, racial capitalism\, and transpacific coalitional movements. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-beyond-the-new-cold-war-intimating-movements-across-taiwan-and-asian-pacific-america/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-08-at-10.35.53 AM.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20240927T210530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T222733Z
UID:10000721-1732032000-1732039200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: When the Uyghur Language Confronts Atrocity
DESCRIPTION:Over the last decade\, the persecution of Uyghurs in China has attracted global attention. When Uyghur was officially banned from education by the Chinese government in September 2016\, Uyghur editors were arrested and heavily sentenced\, and books were collected and burned. Private bookstores were shut down and Uyghur publishers and bookstore owners were sentenced. Today\, Uyghur linguists\, writers\, and journalists remain persecuted. In January 2017\, Uyghurs started to organize mother language schools\, publish textbooks\, and write story books for kids. There are now four Uyghur publishing houses\, two bookstores\, three online libraries among the Uyghur diaspora\, and more than 70 Uyghur mother language classes\, both online and in-person\, teaching Uyghur around the world.  \nIn this talk\, Abduweli Ayup will discuss his 2013 arrest for teaching the Uyghur language to kindergarteners\, his activism\, and his advocacy for Uyghur language education in China and the diaspora. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nAbduweli Ayup is a writer\, activist\, and linguist\, specializing in Uyghur-language education. He has lived in Bergen\, Norway since 2019 as a writer-in-residence through the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) program. Abduweli founded Uyghur Hjelp in 2016\, which investigates and documents the Uyghur plight\, publishes books\, and supports Uyghur bookstores\, kindergartens and schools\, and engages in advocacy. He has published six books in Uyghur\, his essays and jail memoirs in Turkish\, and his first English-language book will be published in September 2025 by Silkie Publishing House.  \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/when-the-uyghur-language-confronts-atrocity/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Ayup_Event_Image.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20240925T203442Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T223259Z
UID:10000720-1732204800-1732210200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: William Davies King
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between William Davies King (Theater and Dance) and Jessica Nakamura (Theater and Dance) about King’s new book\, Finding the Way to ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’: Eugene O’Neill and Carlotta Monterey O’Neill at Tao House. \nIn this book\, King offers a new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s most famous play by reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated. As an unusually explicit autobiographical drama\, Long Day’s Journey Into Night returns to 1912\, the outset of O’Neill’s writing career\, when he confronted tragedy in his family story and found a way to dramatize his mother\, father\, brother\, and himself in a way that has resonated with audiences since its publication and production in 1956. But King argues that the play originates as much in the moment of its creation\, 1939–1941—in the family relationships\, the historical circumstances\, and the fact that this work would represent a moment of closure of his great career. Key to this heroic story of creation is the intervention of his wife\, Carlotta\, whose diaries enable a day-to-day observation of how the play was written. This book develops a close reading of their house and marriage and also uses many of O’Neill’s previous plays to illuminate the breakthrough of Long Day’s Journey. \nWilliam Davies King is Distinguished Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and a veteran scholar of Eugene O’Neill\, his life and works\, and his wives. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-william-davies-king/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/King_Event.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T134500
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241022T165643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T194306Z
UID:10000733-1732537800-1732542300@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: One China\, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
DESCRIPTION:In his talk\, Ian Rowen will highlight how Chinese tourism split Taiwan into “Two Taiwans”—one portrayed as part of China for Chinese tour groups\, and the other experienced as the everyday reality of local residents and independent travelers. He will also examine how this dynamic intensified conflicts between business\, civil society\, and government entities with differing stakes in maintaining a PRC-focused tourism industry\, ultimately contributing to a more diverse civic nationalism in Taiwan. Rowen’s book One China\, Many Taiwans explores how tourism\, used by the PRC as a political tool to influence Taiwan\, heightened tensions between the two governments\, deepened divisions within Taiwanese society\, and increased public support for national self-determination. \nRowen is Associate Professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture\, Languages\, and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Geography and Urban Planning at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Fudan University (China) and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany)\, a postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica (Taiwan)\, and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Agile Governance. His research has been supported with a Fulbright Fellowship and multiple US National Science Foundation grants. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-one-china-many-taiwans-the-geopolitics-of-cross-strait-tourism/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-08-at-10.45.26 AM.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241209T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241209T181500
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241120T192816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T182713Z
UID:10000742-1733763600-1733768100@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Matchstick for Survival: Indigenous Writing in the Russian Arctic
DESCRIPTION:As part of a new lecture series\, “Children’s Literature\, Cultural Preservation\, and Language Revitalization\,” the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Indigenous author Kseniia Bolshakova (Dolgan) entitled “Matchstick for Survival: Indigenous Writing in the Russian Arctic.” \nIndigenous author Kseniia Bolshakova will give a talk on her decolonial book The Frost Also Melts. The novel explores the fate of Arctic Indigenous nomads through the personal story of a child raised in a traditional reindeer-herding family in the tundra. The Frost Also Melts is about the forever that is becoming finite: permafrost\, tundra\, reindeer herding\, and native language. Both the child and adult voices of the author reflect in the novel on the far-reaching effects of ongoing colonization and assimilation. The original book is written in the Dolgan Indigenous language. The talk’s title refers to the fact that Kseniia Bolshakova’s book and all her work are like a matchstick\, trying to keep the dwindling flame of her people alive. \nKseniia Bolshakova is an Indigenous activist and writer. She is a member of the Dolgan Tribal community Iydyna\, born and raised in the Dolgan settlement and tundra of Popigai in the Russian Arctic. Kseniia serves as the Indigenous youth focal point for Eastern Europe\, the Russian Federation\, Central Asia\, and Transcaucasia at the United Nations. \nInterpretation for the discussion will be provided by Karina Sheifer\, a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara who works on endangered languages. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, the Comparative Literature Program\, the Department of Linguistics\, and the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-matchstick-for-survival-indigenous-writing-in-the-russian-arctic/
LOCATION:6320 Phelps and Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Website_Images_BolshakovaEvent.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250115T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241114T224210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T215746Z
UID:10000741-1736956800-1736962200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series: The Human Factor: Work as Science in Twentieth-Century China
DESCRIPTION:In 1935\, the Commercial Press in Shanghai published a modest-sized volume on a subject most of its readers likely never heard of. Titled An Overview of Industrial Psychology (工業心理學概觀)\, this text was written by a young psychologist who was trained in and recently returned from Britain. It was the first in Chinese on the titular subject\, which promised to (amid other things) “restore the rightful place of human beings in processes of production.” What was industrial psychology\, and why did those who promoted or practiced it across multiple political and productive regimes choose to do so? In this talk\, Victor Seow will trace the history of industrial psychology in China from the 1930s to the 1990s\, focusing on how this science of work reflected shifts in the meaning and value of labor over those decades. \nVictor Seow is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is a historian of technology\, science\, and industry\, specializing in China and Japan in their global contexts and in histories of energy and work. \nCosponsored by the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Fund\, the IHC’s Machines\, People\, and Politics Research Focus Group\, and the Department of History’s History of Science field 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-lawrence-badash-memorial-lecture-series-the-human-factor-work-as-science-in-twentieth-century-china/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Machines, People, and Politics,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Website_Images_SeowEvent.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Machines%2C People%2C and Politics RFG":MAILTO:pmccray@history.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250117T171500
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241218T191100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241230T174208Z
UID:10000748-1737129600-1737134100@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Child Labor Issue as Depicted in the TV Cartoon Meena Ki Kahani
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Jawa Jha focuses on child labor\, particularly the issues faced by the girl child as depicted in the TV cartoon series Meena Ki Kahani (Stories of Meena)\, broadcast in India. This presentation is divided broadly into three main sections. The first section provides a brief overview of India’s children literature\, tracing its transition from oral storytelling traditions to visual media like cartoon-based TV shows. The second section examines child labor issues depicted in Meena Ki Kahani. This TV cartoon series\, produced with the support of UNICEF\, aims to raise awareness about various social inequalities prevalent in South Asian countries. Re-telecast in India on the Doordarshan channel for e-learning during the pandemic lockdown\, Meena Ki Kahani aims at reducing child labor along with other social issues. The last section of the presentation attempts to comprehend the problems of child labor faced by a girl child in India’s socio-cultural context. This presentation seeks to amplify awareness in order to stop the vicious cycle of child labor in India. \nDr. Jawa Jha is the first Indian to complete a Ph.D. in Korean Literature from Seoul National University\, South Korea. She has taught as Guest faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Bangalore City University\, India. She co-authored a book on Elementary Hindi for Korean learners\, published in 2020 by Busan University of Foreign Studies. She was awarded various research grants and scholarships\, including the Academy of Korean Studies Research Fellowship\, Silk-Road Scholarship\, and Korea Foundation’s Korean language learning scholarship. Recently\, she was invited as a speaker at the 2024 World Bang Jung Hwan Conference on Children’s Literature held in Suwon\, Korea. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-child-labor-issue-as-depicted-in-the-tv-cartoon-meena-ki-kahani/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Jha_event_image.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250121T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250121T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241010T183731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250213T184943Z
UID:10000728-1737475200-1737480600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Daina Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue with Daina Sanchez (Chicana and Chicano Studies) and Omar Pimienta (Spanish and Portuguese) about Sanchez’s new book\, The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the U.S.-Mexico Border. In The Children of Solaga\, Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial\, ethnic\, community\, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland. Assumptions that Indigenous peoples have disappeared altogether\, or that Indigenous identities are fixed\, persist in the popular imagination. This is far from the truth. Sanchez demonstrates how Indigenous immigrants continually remake their identities and ties to their homelands while navigating racial and social institutions in the U.S. and Latin America\, and\, in doing so\, transform notions of Indigeneity and push the boundaries of Latinidad. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork between Los Angeles\, California and San Andrés Solaga\, a Zapotec town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca\, The Children of Solaga centers Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the world and adds a much-needed transnational dimension to the study of Indigenous immigrant adaptation and assimilation. Sanchez\, herself a diasporic Solagueña\, argues that the lived experiences of Indigenous immigrants offer a unique vantage point from which to see how migration across settler-borders transforms processes of self-making among displaced Indigenous people. Rather than accept attempts by both Mexico and the U.S. to erase their Indigenous identities or give in to anti-Indigenous and anti-immigrant prejudice\, Oaxacan immigrants and their children defiantly celebrate their Indigenous identities through practices of el goce comunal (“communal joy”) in their new homes. \nDaina Sanchez is an Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California\, Irvine. She was previously the Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research agenda focuses on race\, migration\, and Indigenous youth. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-daina-sanchez/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/HumanitiesDecanted_WebSocial_SanchezEvent.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241211T230357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T215728Z
UID:10000747-1737561600-1737567000@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness
DESCRIPTION:As part of a new lecture series\, Children’s Literature\, Cultural Preservation\, and Language Revitalization\, the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Prof. Nicola Daly entitled “Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness.” \nIn this talk\, Prof. Nicola Daly will traverse a range of research studies exploring the contribution of dual language picturebooks to language revitalisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on her new book\, Language\, Identity and Diversity in Picturebooks: An Aotearoa New Zealand Perspective (Routledge\, 2025)\, she will present findings showing how dual language picturebooks in Aotearoa can both reflect and disrupt language hierarchies\, and how they can be used in educational settings from preschool to university to support critical language awareness and language learning of the Indigenous language te reo Māori. \nNicola Daly is a sociolinguist and Associate Professor in the Division of Education\, University of Waikato\, where she teaches children’s literature and leads the Postgraduate Certificate in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She also co-directs the Waikato Picturebook Research Unit. Her research focus is multilingual picturebooks and their role in perpetuating and challenging language attitudes. She was a Fulbright New Zealand Scholar at the University of Arizona\, USA in 2019-2020. She is an Executive Board Member and Treasurer of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL). \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, the Children’s Literature\, Cultural Preservation\, and Language Revitalization Lecture Series\, and the Department of Linguistics
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-dual-language-picturebooks-in-aotearoa-contributions-to-language-revitalisation-and-critical-language-awareness/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Nicola_DalyEvent.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20250115T230832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250117T205046Z
UID:10000750-1737561600-1737567000@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Talk: The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
DESCRIPTION:UCSB Professor Emeritus of History Tsuyoshi Hasegawa engages in a colloquy with Michigan State Professor Emeritus of History Lewis Siegelbaum on Professor Hasegawa’s new book\, The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs. When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917\, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises\, from war to social unrest. Although Nicholas’s life is often described as tragic\, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs; it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy. Based on a trove of new archival discoveries\, The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas’s resistance to reform doomed the monarchy. Encompassing the captivating personalities of the era\, it untangles the struggles between the increasingly isolated Nicholas and Alexandra and the factions of scheming nobles\, ruthless legislators\, and pragmatic generals who sought to stabilize the restive Russian empire either with the Tsar or without him. By rejecting compromise\, Nicholas undermined his supporters at crucial moments. His blunders cleared the way for all-out civil war and the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. Definitive and engrossing\, The Last Tsar uncovers how Nicholas II stumbled into revolution\, taking his family\, the Romanov dynasty\, and the whole Russian Empire down with him. \nTsuyoshi Hasegawa is professor emeritus at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the author of numerous books\, including The February Revolution\, Petrograd 1917: The End of the Tsarist Regime and the Birth of Dual Power (2017)\, Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and the Police in Petrograd (2017); Racing the Enemy: Stalin\, Truman and the Surrender of Japan (2006)\, The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo‑Japanese Relations (1998)\, and The February Revolution: Petrograd\, 1917 (1981). He lives in Santa Barbara\, California. \nCosponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Political Science\, Department of History\, and History Associates
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-last-tsar-the-abdication-of-nicholas-ii-and-the-fall-of-the-romanovs/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
ORGANIZER;CN="The Center for Cold War Studies and International History":MAILTO:syaqub@history.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241206T165810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T204340Z
UID:10000745-1738080000-1738083600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 28 | 4-5 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nWednesday\, January 29 | 11 AM-12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC on 1/28 or 1/29 to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-28-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/IHC_PublicHumanities_slogan.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T120000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241206T165850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T204419Z
UID:10000744-1738148400-1738152000@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 28 | 4-5 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nWednesday\, January 29 | 11 AM-12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC on 1/28 or 1/29 to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-29-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/IHC_PublicHumanities_slogan.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241010T190842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T172318Z
UID:10000722-1738252800-1738260000@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Subject or Objects? Key Passageways between Things and Humans
DESCRIPTION:Based on three research projects on aesthetic environments\, this talk will discuss how and when humans and things become objects or subjects. Focusing on the figures of the opera fan\, the shoe fit model\, and the museum custodian\, the lecture will delve into the passivity of the fan as agency\, the fit model as subject and object at the same time\, and the custodian and their reduction to an object\, and how this\, paradoxically\, allows them to occupy their subject position. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nClaudio E. Benzecry is Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession and The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry\, as well as editor of Social Theory Now (with M. Krause and I. Reed)\, all published by University of Chicago Press. He’s currently Co-editor in Chief of Qualitative Sociology. His work has received multiple awards from the American Sociological Association\, including the Lewis Coser\, and the Mary Douglas prizes. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/subject-or-objects/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Benzecry_Event-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20250128T174041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250131T202843Z
UID:10000755-1738767600-1738774800@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Outside the Box: Cardboard in Contemporary Children’s Culture
DESCRIPTION:The cardboard box has long been regarded as the imaginative plaything par excellence. In 2005\, the box was inducted into the Toy Association’s Toy Industry Hall of Fame at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester\, NY—institutionalizing a decades-old association between cardboard and children’s creative play. On the page and onscreen\, in museum galleries\, schools\, toy aisles\, and at home\, today cardboard occupies a privileged position within children’s material culture where the promises of environmental and STEAM education coalesce. Its accessibility makes it an equitable choice; its recyclability makes it a sustainable one. This talk will examine cardboard’s recent ascendence in children’s sustainability and STEAM cultures. Through a series of case studies\, including documentary film\, fiction\, curricular materials and kids’ material cultures\, it will identify the optimistic futures projected by proponents of cardboard play and interrogate their underpinning logics. Cardboard sits at the intersection between the local and the global in children’s everyday lives—at once emblematic of transnational flows of labor and capital and the material stuff of hyper-specific embodied engagements. As such\, this talk will trace cardboard’s function as a material\, discursive\, and aesthetic phenomenon deployed to address—though not necessarily resolve—a range of concerns related to children’s economic\, environmental\, and educational futures. \nMeredith A. Bak is an Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. She is the author of Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture (MIT Press\, 2020). Her work has appeared in journals including Ninth Letter\, The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies\, Early Popular Visual Culture\, The Velvet Light Trap\, and Film History\, and in several edited collections. She is at work on a project about the role of cardboard in children’s STEAM and environmental pedagogies. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Department of Film and Media Studies\, the Carsey-Wolf Center\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, and Comparative Literature Program\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-outside-the-box-cardboard-in-contemporary-childrens-culture/
LOCATION:3145 SSMS\, 3145 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Bak_RFG_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20250106T223647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250109T180025Z
UID:10000749-1738771200-1738776600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Award: Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature
DESCRIPTION:The Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature\, now in its twentieth year\, honors a writer of Chicano/Latino background who has attained national and international distinction. The recipient of the 2025 Leal Award is Manuel Muñoz. A MacArthur Fellow and a Professor of English at the University of Arizona\, Muñoz is the author of three books of short stories and one novel\, all of which have been highly acclaimed and received awards. Mr. Muñoz will engage in a conversation with Prof. Mario T. Garcia of the Department of Chicano Studies and the founder and director of the Leal Award. There will be an opportunity for audience discussion with Mr. Muñoz. \nCosponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Office of the Chancellor\, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor\, Chicano Studies Institute\, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies\, Luis Leal Endowed Chair\, Educational Opportunity Program\, La Maestra Center\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, and the Department of English
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/award-luis-leal-award-for-distinction-in-chicano-latino-literature-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Munoz_Leal_Award_Event_Image.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicano/Latino Research Group":MAILTO:garcia@history.ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T210152
CREATED:20241010T170337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250123T182207Z
UID:10000723-1738857600-1738864800@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Antidotes to Ageism in the Anthropocene: Generational Time and Multispecies Literary Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Models of the passage from midlife to old age—from Freud\, Proust\, and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary conversations about how old is too old to be an American president—disclose the ageism\, including internalized ageism\, rampant in our culture\, with aging figured overwhelmingly as decline. Today\, old age is imagined in terms of splitting: the good third age of incremental diminishment and the bad fourth age of unremitting medical catastrophe. What antidotes can alleviate the toxin that is ageism in the Anthropocene\, with older populations decidedly at risk? Stretching our capacity to comprehend and embrace generational time beyond three (human) generations is one way. Another is seeking kinship with other species that model longer life. Memoirs of ordinary realism\, another. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nKathleen Woodward is Lockwood Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Washington\, where she directs the Simpson Center for the Humanities. She is the author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of Emotions (2009) and Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991) and the editor of Figuring Age: Women\, Bodies\, Generations (1999). Her essays in the cross-disciplinary domains of the emotions\, women and aging\, and technology and culture have been published in American Literary History\, Discourse\, differences\, and Indiana Law Journal\, among others. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/antidotes-to-ageism-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/WoodwardEvent.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR